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5.0 out of 5 starsA brilliant example of communication about science and humanity
Do you enjoy great detective puzzles? Do you like noticing small anomalies, and turning them into clues to an unexpected explanation? Do you like watching world-class scientists at work, piecing together insights to create new theories, and coping with disappointments when their theories appear to be disproved?

3.0 out of 5 starsDoes not work on Kindle because of too many diagrams
It does not work on Kindle because there are too many diagrams. But Max is great fun and I love him BUT (sort Max) I only rate him three because on with this book you should get a free Kindle version with the hard copy because of the diagrams that can't be easily related to the explanatory text on Kindle.

An enjoyable read, making complex ideas from physics understandable. Not ultimately convinced by the notion of multiple parallel universes. The last chapter asks a number of crucial questions which have to be answered whatever particular theory of the origin and nature of the universe one adopts.

I wrote Moving Through Parallel Worlds To Achieve Your Dreams to blow some cerebral cortices and to inspire readers, by integrating 'The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Physics' with the latest in self-help. Now Max Tegmark is the flag bearer today for 'The Many-Worlds Interpretation,' so I was thrilled when I heard he had completed this book. Our Mathematical Universe it turns out, is not only rigorous and scientifically thorough, but it is also mind-blowing and inspiring. Dr. Tegmark takes you on a biographical and precise journey through level after level of parallel worlds, and then just when you start to wonder where this is all heading, he exposes the physical universe for the illusion that it is. He convinces you that the answer to everything, is indeed 42. He convinces you that your very brain is complicit in the illusion of reality, and makes you wonder who the 'you' is that is observing all of this. You finish Our Mathematical Universe feeling much wiser and quite literally immortal. I am impressed at how this book was written in a manner that allows it to be readable for the newly initiated, but also with the depth and precision one would expect from a Ph.D cosmologist. Buy it, read it; great work! - Kevin Michel